BY P.
INK SLINGS.
—*“Lest We forget.” It was 98 degrees |
in the shade in Bellefonfe on July 4th,
1911.
—A movement to have that six weeks
sentence that old Sol put on the ground
hog commutated would prove wonderful-
ly popular. |
—We believe, with James J. HiLL that
should the government take competition
out of business then there would be no
government.
—“Once a Moose always a Moose;”
hardly so with JAMES MOOSE who weigh-
ed 525 pounds and died in Pottstown
Monday. He's probably an angel now.
—When we read of how Secretary WiL-
soN is mixed up in those submarine
farms in Florida we are forced to advise
all our friends who think of buying one
to take one of Dr. WELSH'S pecan proper-
ties, instead.
—The Milwaukee brewer's combine has
advanced the price of beer a dollar a bar-
rel. The rise in the price of hops is
given as the cause. Well, hops may hop
up and cause beer to hop up too but in
the end it will go down.
—Evangelist BILLY SUNDAY worked six
weeks in Canton, Ohio, and took down
fifteen thousand dollars as the reward
for his services. That beats base-ball all
hollow, and also proves that specialists
in religion are getting fancy salaries.
—The heirs of the late EDWIN HAw-
LEY, railroad man, have announced that
his estate will probably shrink from the
first estimates of thirty millicn to not
more than five. So many hands have
been grabbing for it that probably all of
the water was squeezed out before they
realized it.
—Won't the Republican and Gazette
have their own troubles trying to keep
under cover when chairman QUIGLEY and
would be chairman HARRiS get down to
real fighting. Surely the exigencies of
politics will make a lot of strange bed
fellows when the various crowds get to
crawling under cover.
—We hope that personal rancor got
the best of the better judgment of one of
our local contemporaries when it published
that diatribe on Bellefonte's past post-
masters last week. Surely the reflection
upon the splendid service of James H.
Dobgins, D. F. FORTNEY, the late W. W.
MONTGOMERY and poor AL. FIEDLER could
not have been intended.
VOL. 57.
A Dirty Threat to Continue Trouble.
This week our disorganizing friends
who parade themselves as Progressive
Democrats, just as if their party and its
supporters were not progressive, make,
through Mr. A. MITCHELL PALMER, and
the Philadelphia Press (—the first
a chronic trouble breeder, the second a
professed reformer except where reform
might be made effective at the polls, and
then a pitiable tool of Senator PENROSE |
and the gang that does his bidding
—the open declaration AND THREAT |
that there shall be no peace within
the Democratic party or no harmony
in its organization until the men, Mr,
PALMER. Mr. GUTHRIE and Mr. Mc-
COrRMICK consider their
are ousted and driven from the organiza-
tion.
It we were to make a guess as to the
individuality of the men who must be po-
litically damned and denied the privilege
of being Democrats, because this tri-
umvirate of mal-contents don’t like
them, before there can be peace and uni-
ty in the party, we would name Col.
James M. GurrFey, Hon. J. K. P. HALL,
Hon. A. G. DEWALT, Mr. CHas. P. Don.
NELLY and Mr. W. J. BRENNEN. At least
it is upon the heads of these gentlemen
that the vials of wrath of the disorgan-
izers are continuously being poured.
Now, when we take into consideration
that not a single one of these men belong
to or has any more to do with the mak-
ing of the Democratic State organization
than the humblest Democratic voter in
the Commonwealth, the hollowness and
falsity of the excuse they plead for keep-
ing up turmoil and trying to create di-
visions in the party, will be seen.
‘Mr. GUFFEY, although a member of the
National Democratic Committee, has no
connection whatever with the State or-
ganization. Mr. HALL has not been con-
nected in any way with the organization,
served as its chairman, and as
such succeeded in clecting Mr. BERRY as
State Treasurer. Mr. DEwaLT, Mr. DON-
“adversaries” |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA. FEBRUARY 16, 1912.
Insulting Lincoln’s Memory.
That the Republican politicians have
prostituted the anniversary of President
LINCOLN'S birth is a just cause for regret.
Out of the universal admiration of the
patriotism; of the great War President
the anniversary of his birth was made a
National holiday. Men of all parties par-
ticipated in the movement and Demo-
crats and Republicans alike paid this
tribute to his virtues as a man and his
integrity as a public servant. Not only
was this true in Congress but in all the
State Legislatures and of late years the
South vies with the North in honoring
the man and the occasion. Under the
circumstances it would seem to us that
the celebration of LINCOLN'S natal day
ought not to be perverted into a partisan
event.
As a matter of fact, however, that is
| precisely what has been done. On Mon-
day last the President of the United
| States spoke at the LiNcoLy day celebra-
! tion in New York and most of the mem-
| bers of the cabinet spoke at other places.
i Senator PENROSE spoke in Philadelphia
and every Republican Senator and Rep-
resentative in Congress who could be ine
duced to do so, spoke atone place or
another. And in every case the same
thing occurred. The speaker made
! it seem like a political meeting in which
party prejudices were freely invoked to
stir up party passions. In fact it was an-
nounced in advance that it would be
made the occasion of opening up the Re-
publican Presidential campaign. The
orations were stump speeches and the
eulogies of LINCOLN special pleas for par-
tisanship.
If the present Republican party still
adhered to the policies and principles of
LINCOLN there might be some excuse for
this perversion of patriotic impulses. But
as a matter of fact there is no analogy
| betweef modern Republicanism and the
tenets which guided LINCOLN in his polit-
ical and official conduct. No man of his
day or generation more directly repro-
NO. 7.
Another Grave Scandal. Democracy or Caesarism.
The Department of Agriculture in From the Springfield Republican.
| fheony 2 man is, the less likely he would
x : x | o favor another term in Presidéncy
syndicate in selling town lots and truck | for a citizen who had been President two
farms in Florida that are several feet un- | terms already. The case of those Repub-
der water. It was a despicable fraud up- | lican progressives who favor a third ter
on the credulous public. Innocent pur- | for Mr. velt, conseq 1s not
: : easy to diagnose. It cannot be that
chasers were literally jumping at the en- are so full of Democratic theory as id
ticing propositions of the promoters, | profess to be, while they fall short
backed by the endorsement of the gov- such an extent in i
ernment. Of course it is foolish to “buy | Nothing could be
a pig in a poke,” and buy land in the | President again. Congressmai Roosevelt
Everglades of Florida is very much like NE th merely
ha Probl who the government MEBE, vi, Pcs, Rong
- no :
endorsement people would have hesitat- | oo Gn "Roosevelt's case. For what is
ed. Even credulity has its limit. But
every one who has money wants safe in-
vestment for it and the proposition look-
ed good.
The Department of Agriculture had
just emerged from a scandal of the grav-
est kind. At the instance of the manu-
facturers of impure food it had entered
into a conspiracy to eliminate Dr. WILEY,
the pure food expert who couldn't be
bribed or cajoled. The conspiracy had |?!
almost succeeded. The Attorney General
had recommended the dismissal of the
official and the President had ac-
‘quiesced. But the victim wouldn't stand
for the injustice and indirectly appealed
to Congress. The result was an investi-
gation which vindicated WILEY and con-
the record to date? It never entered the
heads of Washinton, Jefferson or Jackson
&
ly censured, it is true, and the other
principal in the affair transferred to
another bureau of the Department,
where he resumed his evil ways.
Singularly enough both these gentle.
men are conspicuous in the new scandal.
If WiLsoN and McCABE had been remov-
ed from office at the close of the other
inyestigation, the new scandal might
never have been developed. But they
were not removed and therefore it is not
unjust to hold the administration respon-
sible for what has happened. Any Presi-
dent, as any citizen, is likely to be de-
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| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
i —Schools at Blacklick are closed, owing
| epidemic of measles.
—A saven mile stretch of 12-inch ice on the
| Raystown branch affords Huntingdon autoists
opportunity for the rare pleasure of ice runs.
—The announcement is made that the Clifford
Susquehanna county, creamery has divided $60,-
000 among its stockholders the profits of the year.
—Former Lieutenant Governor Robert Murphy,
of Johnstown, has taken up his residence in
| Philadelphia, where he is engaged in the practice
| of law.
—While laughing in keen enjoyment of a mov-
ing picture show at a Pottsville theatre, Mrs.
David W. Bechtel fell back dead from heart affec”
| tion. She had been in apparent good health.
! ~The DuBois borough council is considering
the question of issuing bonds to the amount of
| $25,000 for a new municipal building. The pres-
| ent borrowing capacity of the borough is $75,000
—Potter county is an enviable example of
thrift. The only debt is $20,000 of county poor
bonds, which will be reduced to $15,000 this year.
The treasury contains sufficient money to pay ali
bills.
—Eight men who served as special policemen in
Franklin as long ago as last October are stil
looking for their pay because councils are dead
locked about the amount that should be paid
t .
~The oldest woman residing in Pottsville is
dead at the age of 96 years. Margaret Scharf
was her name, widowhood was her lot, and she
never knew a sick day until she lapsed into her
last sleep.
—A truck load of merchandise was found at the
home of a mother and daughter at Prospect, after
their arrest for shop lifting at the Penn Traffic
store, Johnstown. Thirty pairs of shoes were in-
cluded in the collection.
—Ambrose Moose, said to be one of the heaviest
men in this State, died at Pottsville on Monday of
dropsy. He weighed 525 pounds, was5 feet, 10
inches tall and measured three feet across his
shoulders. He was 40 years old.
—The county commissioners of Huntingdon
county had their attorney appear before the grand
jury recently and that body turned down the ap-
plication of Civil war veterans for a memorial
hall. The old soldiers are much disappointed.
—Because twenty-six cuses of smallpox were
found in a small mining town named Unity, not
far from Greensburg, the entire population, about
900 strong, has been vaccinated. Little work is
being done, for everybody is nursing a sore arm.
—Mrs. Annie Connelly and her husband, J.
Frank Connelly, of Clearfield, have sued the bor,
ough for $15,000,because of injuries Mrs. Connelly
received on a defective sidewalk. W. M. Eisen-
haur, owner of the property, has been notified to
defend the suit.
—Louis Globiss, a resident of Westmoreland
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barroom by his victim and fatally shot, dying
almost instantly.
—Lucius H. Willard, manager of the Jersey
Shore opera house, was found dead in bed last
week. He had been missing for three days but,
owing to his habit of spending several days with
friends in Lock Haven or Williamsport, no alarm
was felt until the third day.
~The will of the late Matilda Church-Keller, of
rE Sous
: ars are tobe shot to preven
¥ . is
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of which $18,
NELLY and Mr. BRENNEN all resigned
their connection with the State organiza-
bated the paternalism, centralization and |
militarism of the present Republican par-
ty than LINCOLN. “Though only
—China is. a Republic at last. The
Manchus have abdicated after three cen-
turies of domination, which is quite some
arta ia poh a Slayer wage
TIC , Es TA
time according to our idea of it. In Chi-
na, however, the Manchus were hated
because they didn't date back far enough.
—J. PierrONT MORGAN'S art collec.
tion is said to be valued at one hundred
million dollars. Just think how many
warm suits of woolen clothes, tons of
coal and sacks of flour that colossal sum
would buy for the suffering poor this
winter.
—Mr. RYErsoN W. JENNINGS, chair-
man of the Democratic committee of
Ten which is organizing the movement
in behalf of WiLsON in Pennsylvania, has
discovered a nigger in the wood-pile in
the person of the Hon. JIMMIE BLAKES-
LIE, secretary of GUTHRIE'S reorganizer's
State committee. The Philadelphia
Ledger of Monday quotes Mr. JENNINGS
as follows: “The replies so far received
have been most gratifying, The only
discordant note has come from Mr.
BLAKESLIE, probably, however, this was
to be expected * * * he isso entire.
ly animated by another and a narrower
purpose, that WILSON'S success is subor-
dinated to the objects of a faction.”
Of course it was to be expected. Mr,
BLAKESLIE is like Mr. PALMER and Mr.
GurHrie. The only boosting they are
ready to do is for themselves, and they
are so eager to become bosses of the
Democratic party in Pennsylvania that
they haven't a care for such important
things as the national campaign.
—HARD P. HARRIS, of Bellefonte, has
sad his ear to the ground and claims to
have heard a far cry from his party that
a new county chairman is wanted; con-
seqently he is out in opposition to chair-
man QuicLEY. While it might be true
that a new chairman is wanted, a new
one is certainly not needed. In fact the
Republican party needs no chairman at
all because by next fall there won't be
ed to the places they filled.
With a remembrance of these factsour
readers will see exactly the animus that
keeps up the troubles that now vex and |
disgust the great mass of Democratic | and a return to vocations and methods of
voters in Pennsylvania. { peace. Political stump speeches on
It is the dirty and detestable work of a LINCOLN'S birthday are insulting to his
pitiable little faction that secks,and fights, memory.
for the acknowledged leadership that the !
Democratic people wisely refuse to give |
period of time had elapsed between.
surrender of LEE and his death hé was
already impatient for a complete restora-
tion of the government of the country
—In order to relieve the suspense
to ask
the WiLEy investigation ended there
ought to have been two vacancies in the
Department of Agriculture and Secreta-
ry WiLson and Solicitor MCCABE placed
in retirement. i
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——Considering the way the Mexican
people have been carrying on ever since
they drove President Diaz out of their
It has always been so! Will a wide:
Silfulion of education change the situa-
on. »
Or after all don’t men like Johnson
really win in defeat? Their ideas go
marching on and though downed in in-
y tri h long after
the propagator is pracy lies ly
Judson Harmon Stands Pat.
From the Altoona Times.
After a protracted silence, Governor
them.
And they now threaten that there can
be no peace until this is allowed them.
Surely the exhibition of such a spirit
and purpose should convince every Dem-
ocrat of the utter unworthiness of these
“pretending reformers.”
Bryan Fitly Rebuked.
The country is indebted to Representa-
tive MARTIN Dies, of Texas, for his ex-
posure, on Saturday last, of WILLIAM
Jennings BRYAN. With other Democrat-
ic members of the House of Representa-
tives, Mr. Dies had recently voted against
a resolution requiring that the President
shall publish the names of all persons
who recommend candidates for appoint-
ment to the bench. Such a resolution is
generally understood to be unconstitu-
tional for the reason that it would work
an encroachment upon the constitutional
prerogatives of the executive. But with
characteristic fatuousness, Mr. BRYAN
assailed the gentlemen and denounced
them as party recreants.
On Saturday Mr. DIES “rose to a ques-
tion of privilege” and had Mr. BRYAN'S
attack read to the House. Thereupon he
quoted from the records evidence that
GEORGE WASHINGTON, the first President,
resented a similar proposition as an in-
fraction of the constitution and that
ANDREW JACKSON was equally emphatic
in repelling a similar infraction of the
among his million or moré minions in
Pennsylvania Senator PENROSE has thus
early announced that he will permit them
to re-elect him to the Senate in 1915.
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Mr. JAMES I. BLAKESLIE, political clown,
is greatly incensed because some of the
rest of us favor the nomination of WooD-
ROW WILSON as the Democratic candi-
date for President. He is utterly unable
to imagine why anybody, other than him-
self, should have any opinion on any sub-
ject. It would have been just as easy,
he confidently believes, for the Democrats
of Pennsylvania to appoint him adminis-
trator of its estate, and allow him, in
pursuance of the authority thereby con-
veyed, to select the candidate for Presi-
dent. Nobody clse, he feels assured, is
competent to perform such an important
service. He only, of all men, understands
the needs of the people and the require:
ments of the occasion. He is essentially
©"
Therefore Mr. BLAKESLIE, political
clown, protests against the organization
might have been all right because in that
event it would have been under safe
auspices, according to his notion. But
unhappily he hardly ever thinks of any-
thing first and in his estimation anything
that anybody else thinks of first is all
country and took governmental affairs | ©. Co rnor Harmon raises
into their own hands, most people will | .
tude that he rad Siving a : profes against the initiative and refer
good deal better government than they | It was notto be expected that Governor
Judson Harmon, of Ohio, has Spoken
his wv in
deserved. | Harmon would a e of these notions.
me | They present the sutigodes of his
| own e a conserva-
Mr. Schwab Makes a Bluf. | tive, while the initiative and referendum
a part of the most radical of
Mr. CHARLES M. SCHWAB, president, ' pt t. It is not likely that the
owner, and general manager of the Beth- initiative referendum will play any
lehem Steel company, threatens that he PArt in the coming presiasneial campaign.
will quit inlaws if Congress yuo the LOLSiat Teason, ther je, Title or 0
pending bill reducing the tariff tax on mon’s attack on the principle save in
jStee) Mr. CARNEGIE testified before a that it : ilicates Yoly cleafly H that he
| Congressional Committee, not long ago, 'n NO Wis¢ ¢ St
' that no tariff taxes are needed on tee), So-Called "sale 30) sane” wing
! products. But Mr. SCHWAB takes a dif- | r—
ferent view of the subject. He believes Politics and the Aldrich Bill
| that the $2.40 cents a ton tariff tax €X- From the Chicago Public.
| pressed in the UNDERWOOD bill is insuffi- | the
| cient. It might do well enough as an! EE em ear
item of profit for the manufacturers of
| steel, he admits. But what is io bose! ehieber Jf fo propesed 10 ko Poe
of the necessary protection to labor? | of the white man’s
| That is what makes Mr. SCHWAB threat- | tee of a
| en to quit business. j hel, Who
| According to an investigation made by ' jefiled”
a New York contemporary with respect alone.” What the people
conditions at South Bethlehem, Kilow Shop: the Siatioy 1
Mr. SCHWAB’S steel industry, coop” features. omission
hal the laborers employed. there work Lon Lerouse the, polly, oppor
twelve hours a day, seven days in a week hunting banker crowd.
for the consideration of about twelve | ——
and a-half cents an hour. The death rate | It Wi
is higher, with a single exception, than From the Ohio
in any other community in the civilized | In the meantime, La
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the
In commending
bill, President Taft
a
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time at the farm homestead
brass, and were made in Germany. DeWitt has
refused $150 for the old-time-piece.
—Ross Perry, of Morrisdale, indicted for mur-
der in the Clearfield county court, was discharg-
ed. Judge Smith said he might have been tried
for involuntary manslaughter, as he mistook John
Yurko for a burglar and shot him as he was
crawling through a window into Perry’s home.
—A. B. Farquahr, purchaser of the Jordan
property, in West Manchester township, from
the York hospital and dispensary, has made ar-
rangements with his attorney to give a tract con-
taining seven acres to York city that Farquahr
Park may be enlarged. The entire tract contains
thirty-three acres.
—A rabbit hound belonging to a lumberman
residing at View Point camp, near "
killed a yearling buck recently. Two days previ-
ous the deer and the dog had an encounter and
the dog was forcibly taken tocamp and tied. As
soon as he was released he went after the deer,
. which had been foolish enough to stay in the
| vicinity.
{ —William B. Pletcher, who years ago left How-
ard for Eaglesmere, recently purchased the
Michael Schenck farm, which had been in that
family for a century. Mr. Pletcher's mother was
a descendant of Michael Schenck, and his wife
was of the same family connection, so the pur-
chase restores the farm to a family in which it
had been for four generations.
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powers of the President. Having thus
entrenched himself he denounced Mr.
BRYAN as "an evil genius, hovering on
the flanks of Democracy.” and flatly de-
wrong for the reason that he may be left world and the conditions are unspeak-
out of the subsequent reckoning. In the able. But Mr. SCHWAB'S wealth multiplies
matter of the WooDROW WILSON League, ' with surprising rapidity and he frankly
for example, he is cock sure that it is a refuses to take any steps toward the im-
any Republicans left in Centre county,
so why the need of a new or an old
chairman. However, both Mr. HARRIS
Eis
the Harer home and Mr. Harer arose from a
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and Mr. QuicLEY will differ with us on
this point, so we >xpect to sit by and see
the fun. There is bound to be some, too.
There are a lot of defeated candidates
suffering with the delusion that a differ-
ent campaign last fall might have left
them with their feet still tucked under
the court house benches, then there are
a lot of other things, as well. For in-
stance, how many Republican lawyers
who have the judicial bee buzzing in their
bonnet, do you imagine can see any
water being poured on their mill by
watching Mr. QUIGLEY building up an or-
ganization all of his own in the county,
and there are always a few ready to take
issue with the established order of things.
If Mr. Harris should succeed in round.
ing up all these discordant elements there
will probably be doings between this and
April 13th that will be both interesting
and amusing.
nor respected the judgment of the Ne-
braskan.’’ And his speech was cordially
approved and liberally applauded by a
large proportion of the Democrats of the
House.
Apparently Mr. BRYAN doesn’t want
Democratic success. He seems deter-
mined to allow no man to reach the goal
which he failed to attain and he is con-
stantly striving to breed trouble in the
party. In this State he has frequently
obtruded himself to create discontent and
in the Denver convention four years ago
counseled the most outrageous perversion
of power in order to prevent the election
of Colonel GUFFEY to the office of Repre-
sentative in the National committee. He
makes more money by keeping the party
in the minority and doesn't hesitate to
betray and in the defeat of candidates
of the party in order to achieve his selfish
clared that “he neither feared the power | conspiracy to prevent the elevation of provement of conditions for the reason
| GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, VANCE C. McCoRr-
MICK, A. MITCHELL PALMER and himself
to the leadership of the party.
The Wooprow WILSON League, or-
ganized under the auspices of the regular
| Democratic organization of Philadelphia,
| was conceived in the purest friendship
for the distinguished Governor of New
Jersey and is likely to prove a very potent
and much needed auxiliary force in the
campaign for his nomination for the
Presidency. It has not taken into account
the treacherous element which has been
betraying the party at nearly every elec-
tion during the past fifteen years and is
not likely to take much notice of the
absurd antics of Mr. BLAKESLIE. But it
will serve the purpose for which it was
created, namely, conserve the interests
of Wooprow WILSON in the campaigns
for his nomination and election.
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friends of
that he says they are practically the same ths before the end comes,
in all other communities in which the there may be many "a discord ct i
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at time.
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This Rules Out Teddy.
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immediate passage of the UNDERWOOD From Collier's Weekly.
tariff bill. So far as we are able to discover Other things being anywhere near
Mr. SciwABis not indispensible to the that candidate is going to have a
industria) fife of the country. 1 he wants ‘Sdyantage in the coming primaries
to quit business let him quit. His re- policy of a high protective tariff.
tirement might create a void, temporarily | nee
in South Bethlehem, but it would not be ——The English courts have decided
an enduring loss for there will be some: that the estate of the late Dowager
body to take his place and as was said on Duchess of Manchester must ‘pay $300,
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at Washington will still live. Mr. SCHWAB though, as a matter of fact, no part of
has been a considerable figure, no doubt, the property involved was ever taken into
but not the “whole cheese,” He is mak- British dominions. This may look
ing a bluff now and if his bluff is called, a hardship upon her heirs but we are
and his weakness exposed, it will be his unable to work up a great deal of sym-
own fault, pathy for her.
a memorable occasion, the government 000 duties on her American property, 'Sobe!
bed to attend the funeral. Harer was a veteran
of the Civil war and took part in many battles. He
was confined as a prisoner in Libby, Bell Island
and Salisbury prisons.
—Senator Cyrus E. Woods, recently appointed ~
minister to Portugal by President William H,
Taft, spent nearly allof last week in Washington
going over the correspondence between Portugal
and the United States and familiarizing himself
with the duties of his new office. Senator Weeds
will not leave for Portugal until February 24th.
He will sail on one of the North German Lloyd
steamers for Cherbourg, and will go from there
to Paris, and thence to Lisbon, his station. The
Monongahela
been cut in the ice. One convert, a well known
preach.
| spluttered.